Personalized Healthcare

The one-size-fits-all healthcare model that we know today is not sustainable. Its poor efficacy and inefficiency is leading to skyrocketing costs. In the future, medicine will be personalized, predictive and outcome-based: You’ll pay a little for being healthy instead of paying more for costly tests and treatments.

Making healthcare more personalized will lead to an increase in the number of wearable and implantable devices. These devices will measure vital parameters, manage collected data, analyze the results and communicate them to the patient and the supporting medical staff.

ANSYS solutions help to overcome these challenges by simulating how medical devices interact with a patient’s body to ensure safety, biocompatibility, efficiency and performance. Structural, electromagnetic and fluid flow simulations can be valuable either separately or in multiphysics mode. MRI scans and other medical imaging techniques can be used as the simulation geometry for a specific patient to tailor a medical device or surgical solution for that patient’s unique anatomy. A personalized model provides improved operation and a better fit for implantable medical devices, as well as more successful outcomes of surgical procedures.

Regulatory and Cost Benefits

Conscious of the difficulty of innovating quickly and cost-effectively while maximizing patient safety, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and policy makers are encouraging the adoption of computational modeling and simulation to accelerate the product development process. Testing digital prototypes on many virtual patients (in silico clinical trials) and synthesizing the simulation results can streamline the regulatory approval process.

Personalized healthcare will make healthcare affordable, sustainable and profitable. This revolution has already begun, but such a major paradigm shift requires massive innovations in which engineering simulation will play a key role. ANSYS simulation solutions have already contributed significantly to this revolution, and will grow in importance in the years ahead.

Digital System Prototyping for Medical Devices

A multidomain, digital system prototyping platform enables multispecialty teams with diverse engineering backgrounds to work in unison to achieve a deep understanding of integrated product behavior. This white paper summarizes the application of this platform to develop a digital system prototype of a wearable insulin pump. Digital system prototyping software helps medical device companies:

Develop disruptive medical innovations faster and more reliably

Partially replace clinical trials

Ensure greater success of a clinical trial through in silico simulation

Improve collaboration across disciplines

Optimize the performance of physical components and integrated systems of hardware and embedded software

How Pervasive Engineering Simulation Became the Pulse of the Healthcare Industry

The use of engineering simulation in the healthcare industry is pervasive from the component to the system level. Research shows that best-in-class companies invest in a broad portfolio of engineering simulation tools. Benefits of a consolidated simulation platform:

Personalizing healthcare treatment to each patient is quickly becoming a competitive imperative for healthcare companies, yet the cost of designing implanted medical device and wearables prototypes and testing them on the target population is prohibitively high. Engineering simulation is the answer to overcoming this challenge and addressing several bioelectronics technology gaps.

Measuring target parameters reliably for every patient

Optimizing the size, weight, power and cooling (Swap-C) of medical devices

Optimizing the electromagnetic interactions of devices with their environment